Cybernetic consciousness

Today…our consciousness and intuition is tuned more to suit machines. We can relate more with machines than humans. On average everyday, we associate more with computers, television, cars, video games, cell phones, black berry’s, automated gadgets used in kitchens etc more than we associate with humans. The more we are tuning our frequency to machine language, the more we become like machines. We will forget how to talk, laugh and interact at the fundamental level. We will sleep, eat and take a break when the machine requires one. Our sentiments and emotions will become duller and less interactive. Ultimately, we will negate the concept of “personal” relationships and live in a fantasy world driven by fictional characters we see on TV, computers and video games. People who choose to believe a higher power will conveniently accept the impersonal philosophy because it will dovetail with their impersonal lives devoid of meaningful relationships.

We can see this today very much in big cities and corporate settings. People rarely speak with anyone on the street. They live in closed apartments and residences. Drive in isolated cars and sit in cubicles in front of computers. Their recreation would be most likely hiking in the mountains or viewing the scenic landscape or visiting the popular downtown building. Which ever way, people will be more comfortable to be among themselves and within themselves rarely bothering about the person standing next to him or her. In other words, we will turn into self-engrossed walking zombies who can careless about the external world. Our thoughts, views and priorities will be shaped by an unknown, impersonal editor or news anchor or author. We will trust a random website versus a real person. Our information will filter to us solely through an impersonal virtual medium of which we will be very comfortable. Our world will become like of one of those futuristic movies filled with robots except that human beings will become robotized.

Science and technology increases this cybernetic consciousness by isolating humans giving them a false sense of independency and security thus alleviating the need to associate and seek relationship with people. This impersonlistic tendency will only lead to an atheistic lifestyle entirely negating the concept of a Personal God. If the scientists do not intentionally take into account the socio-cultural impact of modern machines (that come in varying forms and fields), then we will have to deal with a generation that can rarely communicate let alone make decisions in a common table for the benefit of others.

This Krishna Consciousness movement teaches every human being on how to be “human” and that we are more than just a complex biological machine. The only way we can survive the onslaught of this socio-cultural mechanization is when we learn the fundamental functions of life – the science of the soul, supersoul and matter.

It is time we learn this eternal science!

Hare Krishna